Denmarks shuts down all schools, daycare facilities, universities, highschools

Re:Denmarks shuts down all schools, daycare facilities, univ... by bcrosby95 on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @04:47PM (#22550344)

Probably best to shut them down too early or not at all. Grandparents tend to be relied upon as babysitters in time of need, so if you wait until transmission among school children is widespread your actions just delivered the virus to some of the most vulnerable populations.

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Re:Denmarks shuts down all schools, daycare facilities, univ... by slurms on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @07:15PM (#22551831)

My parents are elderly and my partner's parents live 150 miles away, and both work; We have no family that is able or willing to watch our child so we pay for care (and it's hugely expensive, over $2500/mo for center based care)

My partner works as an RN, and I'm in software development. I've always taken the days off when our child is ill, it's logistically simpler, but I make 2X the salary so we have always said my job is the priority if we lose child care long term.

If our daycare closes for a long period that means my partner needs to stop going to work and there's one less RN at that hospital.

To make things worse, our daycare has already stated that the current "24 hours fever free" policy of your child returning is now "14 days fever free, or a physician's note indicating it's safe to return" -- and you must keep paying while they are out, that's the existing policy when it's a day or so and apparently will continue even when it's two+ weeks... no relief expected.

If daycares are forced to shutdown, but still require payment from parents, that will be absolutely egregious and infuriating.

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Re:Denmarks shuts down all schools, daycare facilities, univ... by rasz on Thursday March 12, 2020 @06:20AM (#22555323)

Did you press one 0 too many there? You could hire private nanny for $2.5K/me.

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Re:Denmarks shuts down all schools, daycare facilities, univ... by cortesoft on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @05:04PM (#22550592)

Assuming grandparents live near their families, and are alive, and are capable of child care.

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Re:Denmarks shuts down all schools, daycare facilities, univ... by pierreminik on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @05:24PM (#22550872)

Denmark is geographically a relatively small country, and it is not uncommon for children to travel alone across the country in dedicated trains[1] for the children during the weekends.

That said, its really not uncommon for other family members besides grandparents and even friends of the family to take care of your children in Denmark.

[1]: (In Danish) https://www.dsb.dk/find-produkter-og-services/dsb-borneguide...

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Re:Denmarks shuts down all schools, daycare facilities, univ... by terle on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @05:34PM (#22550999)

Actually this was dicouraged by a doctor. Grandparents usually belongs to the extract group who's exposure we're trying to limit

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